instabat

instabat is a Latin form of insto, meaning “press on, pursue; threaten, be at hand; insist”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.80: … imum agmen, adeo ut paene terga convertant, compluresque milites, etiam nonnulli centuriones, interficiuntur. Instabat agmen Caesaris atque universum imminebat.

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.24: … ar rebus maximis uno atque eo perexiguo tempore. Vrgebant comitia, et in his ipsis oppugnabar grandi pecunia; instabat iudicium, ei quoque negotio fisci Sicilienses minabantur. agere quae ad iudicium pertinebant libere comitioru …

All forms of insto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.